Welcome to the Rotary Club of Dundas
Service above Self: They benefit most who serve best
The Rotary International movement celebrated 100 years in 2005. It’s founder, Paul Harris, held the first Rotary club meeting in Chicago, Illinois, USA, on February 23, 1905. Since that inception, the movement has travelled around the world, with currently more than 28,000 Rotary Clubs in more than 160 countries, involving a total membership in excess of 1.2 million men and women.
Rotarians provide humanitarian service locally and worldwide. The object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a worthy enterprise and, in particular, to address the following principles:
- The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service.
- High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all occupations; and the dignifying by each Rotarian of their occupation as an opportunity to serve society.
- The application of the ideal of service by every Rotarian to their personal, business and community life.
- The advancement of international understanding, goodwill and peace through a world of fellowship of business and professional people united in the ideal of service.
The Rotary Club of Dundas was officially recognized at a meeting held on May 19, 1948, in the meeting room of the Dundas Public Library. Today, in year 2006, the club members meet for lunch and fellowship every Tuesday at 12.00 pm, at the Dundas Golf and Country Club, Hwy. #8 & Woodley’s Lane, Dundas.
The Club’s official print communication tool is the monthly newsletter, “The Highlander”. This lists the Duty Roster for the month, programmes specific to each week’s meeting, club attendance statistics, visitors names and members’ makeup record. The newsletter also carries an account of the content of the previous weeks invited after-lunch speakers.
The success and growth of the Rotary movement in Dundas and the surrounding communities gave rise, in 2000, to a second Rotary club in Dundas – The Dundas Valley Sunrise Rotary Club. The name “Sunrise” is the reason for its 7.15 am meeting timetable. This club meets the need to accommodate members and potential members who are unable to attend the 12.00 pm meeting timetable of our founding club in Dundas.
To remind Rotarians to the ideal of service, The Four Way Test of the things we think, say or do, the following watchwords guide Rotarians:
- Is it the TRUTH
- Is it FAIR to all concerned
- Will it build GOODWILL and better friendships
- Will it be BENIFICIAL to all concerned